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Dom-Brauerei Aktiengesellschaft

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legal form Corporation
founding 1894
Seat Cologne , Germany
management Achim Zweifel (CEO AG), Michael Schürger (Dom-Brauerei GmbH)
Number of employees 29 (09/30/2009)
sales € 11.8 million (2008)
Branch brewery
Website domkoelsch.de

The Dom Brewery was a beer sales company and a former brewery based in Cologne-Westhoven . The company's best-known brand was Dom Kölsch .

The Dom-Brauerei AG last acted as a holding company and comprised the Robert Metzmacher Verwaltungs-GmbH, the Dom-Brauerei GmbH Production and Sales, the Rats-Center GmbH Frechen and the Rheingold Gaststätten-Betriebs-GmbH. There is a control and profit transfer agreement with the first two. Vertriebsgesellschaft deutscher Brauereien mbH owns a good 95% of the shares. The beers of the Dom brewery were produced by the Erzquell brewery as a wage brew until 2013 .

history

In 1894 the Steingröver brothers bought the two Cologne breweries Johann Joseph Creischer and Cornelius Schieffer from Carl Göters, as well as a 14,000 square meter site on Tacitus and Goltsteinstrasse. They called the merger "Hirsch Brewery Göter & Steingröver, Cologne-Bayenthal, Alteburger Strasse 242, Kontor Tacitusstrasse 12". In 1900 the Hirsch brewery was converted into a public limited company.

In the years that followed, the brewery was enlarged by purchasing several smaller breweries in Cologne and the surrounding area. The Hirsch brewery mainly produced "Hirsch Gold Export" and "Hirsch-Edel-Pils". The brewery was destroyed in the Second World War and the repair work took until 1956.

From this point on, Dom Kölsch was predominantly produced. From the mid-1960s, capacities were increased. In 1972, after the merger with Hitdorfer Brauerei AG, the Dom brewery was taken over by the Stern-Brauerei Carl-Funke AG , Essen. Since 1974 only Dom Kölsch has been brewed in the Dom brewery. Since 1987, the Dom brewery has been run as a legally independent company within the Stern Group. In 1989 the Jos. Degraa Erben KG , Aachen, took over the private brewery Robert Metzmacher GmbH & Co. KG, Frechen (Rats Kölsch) in 1994 and in 1998 the Giesler Brauerei GmbH & Co. in Brühl. In 1998 the Stern Brauerei Carl Funke AG was renamed Dom-Brauerei AG. In 2001 the production site on Tacitusstrasse was sold and a production facility, event space and beer garden were taken over by the Küppers brewery. A brewery museum was housed in these rooms.

Due to economic difficulties, beer production was stopped at the end of 2005. From January 2006 the beers in the Lohn-Bräu were produced by the Erzquell Brewery Bielstein . The site in Alteburger Strasse was sold again in 2006 and has since been leveled. Giesler's Gaststättenbetriebs-GmbH was dissolved in 2008. Furthermore, in the main insolvency proceedings, with the help of a squeeze-out, all shares in the free float were bought up and Dom-Brauerei AG was converted into a GmbH.

The annual output in the wage brewery of the Erzquell Brewery Bielstein was last 50,000 hl (2012).

In October 2013 it was announced that the company had been sold to the Radeberger Group . The brand should be retained. So Dom Kölsch is now being brewed in Cologne again.

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The sales area consists essentially of the Cologne regional area, but there are also some sources of supply in the rest of Germany. The main sales driver is draft beer.

The product range includes:

  • 0.33 l returnable bottle - pack of 6
  • 0.5 l returnable bottle - crate of 20 and crate of 11
  • 5 l party can
  • draft beer

The brewery's brands are:

  • Cologne Cathedral
  • Rats Kölsch
  • Giesler Kölsch

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rundschau-online.de: Dom Kölsch is brewed in Bielstein. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ rundschau-online.de: Lucrative even without Dom-Kölsch. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger October 24, 2013, p. 25 online

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '18.7 "  N , 7 ° 1' 46.3"  E